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LON-CAPA

LON-CAPA. The LearningOnline Network with CAPA Gerd Kortemeyer Michigan State University East Lansing, USA. Sharing of Resources. Creating online resources (web pages, images, homework problems) is a lot of work Doing so for use in just one course is a waste of time and effort

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  1. LON-CAPA The LearningOnline Network with CAPA Gerd Kortemeyer Michigan State University East Lansing, USA

  2. Sharing of Resources • Creating online resources (web pages, images, homework problems) is a lot of work • Doing so for use in just one course is a waste of time and effort • Many resources could be used among a number of courses and across institutions

  3. Key to Re-Usability • The key to re-usability is to create course-context free resources • In other words, same resource can be used in different contexts • This means: • No button “next resource” • No button “back to course menu” • No wording such as “as we have previously seen” • etc

  4. Using Re-Usable Resources • BUT: how do you use context-free re-usable resources in the context of a course? • You need an infrastructure to • Find resources ina library of resources • Sequence them up(put the puzzle together) • Serve them out tothe students

  5. Course Management Course Management Resource Assembly Resource Assembly Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library LON-CAPA Architecture Campus A Campus B

  6. LON-CAPA Architecture Campus A Campus B Course Management Course Management Resource Assembly Resource Assembly Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library

  7. Shared Resource Library • LON-CAPA currently links 49 schools and 43 institutions of higher education in eight countries

  8. Shared Resource Library • The distributed network looks like one big file system • You can see each institution, the authors at that institution, and their resources

  9. Shared Resource Library • Resources may be web pages …

  10. Shared Resource Library • … or simulations and animations …

  11. Shared Resource Library • … or this kind of randomizing online problems

  12. Shared Resource Library • Total holdings and sharing

  13. LON-CAPA Architecture Campus A Campus B Course Management Course Management Resource Assembly Resource Assembly Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library

  14. Compiles modules about conservation laws Writes module aboutenergy conservation Use wholeassemblyin his course Writes module aboutmomentumconservation Resource Assembly

  15. LON-CAPA Architecture Campus A Campus B Course Management Course Management Resource Assembly Resource Assembly Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library

  16. Course Management • Instructors can directly use the assembled material in their courses • navigational tools for students to access the material • grade book • communications • calendar/scheduling • access rights management • portfolio space

  17. Course Management • Graph shows student course enrollments at MSU • Approximately 35,000 student/course enrollments systemwide at over 90 institutions

  18. Course Management • The interface is internationalized

  19. Open-Source and Free • LON-CAPA is open-source and free • No license fees • Runs on Linux

  20. Acknowledgements and Website • Support provided by • the American National Science Foundation • Michigan State University • The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation • Our partner universities Visit us at http://www.lon-capa.org/

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